By Steve Song, on May 28th, 2009

I find myself wondering if I am the only one dismayed by the “mudwrestling” going on among Dambisa Moyo, Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly… and others. In case you haven’t heard, Dambisa Moyo has written a provocative book on the merits of development assistance. Her book, Dead Aid, challenges some of the accepted [...]
By Steve Song, on February 10th, 2009

This post is a little off-piste for me but what is blogging for, if not to occasionally skate on or over the edges of one’s knowledge. This month is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the web is awash in articles about Darwin and the theory of evolution. Having read many [...]
By Steve Song, on April 25th, 2008

In an earlier post, I wrote about a very cool publishing model used by a bible publishing company in the U.S. in which they were able to aggregate user demand by laying out the pricing curve for developing an electronic version of a book. This made me think about Siyavula, the Foundation’s project [...]
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